How about a navigator with down syndrome and a dwarf as the engineering officer while we are at it?

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Hey, a dwarf would fit into the Jeffreys tubes much better...wow, would that be un-PC.

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Giggles aside, a dwarf regular would be a good idea.

I've also considered a actor/actress who was a child, six to nine years old, with facial makeup to make them appear in their twenties or thirties. Dub the voice probably too. You could use them in a story arc, then by necessary get rid of them before they grew out of the role.

Get some basketball player sized folks in there too, as long as they reasonable can walk down the corridors. Slight bowing perhaps through the doorways.

Not everyone in the Federation is going to be "normal" sized.

(The seven foot four woman, can have a romance, with the four foot one man)

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I see no point in that with medical advances. They probably eliminated that particular condition. Same reason u don't see any obese people.

I understand the concept on an EMH, on ships with a small medical staff they would need back up if faced with a major crisis. But when he started wanting to be more than the ship's doctor I just didn't buy it, especially that whole "ECH" thing. Why not just turn command over to the computer, as that is all a hologram is.

In the next series they should do everything possible to distance themselves from the holographic rights crap that VOY tried to ram down our throat. A hologram, even one as sophisticated as the Doctor, is still a mass market computer programme. Data's status as a sentient being is different in that he is pretty unique, but after holograms it's be the phaser banks, then the warp reactor, then the toaster all looking to be recognised (ok a bit fanciful that, but there I see little difference between a hologram and any other ship system, its a tool).

I could understand a crew member being cyberised following the war, in order to repair serious injuries, but I think that Trek can leave androids/robots and holograms alone for the time being.

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What Makes Data different is he is a totally independent Android with a Body and actual intelligence beyond mere programming. Holograms without 29th century tech don't have bodies.

I have always thought that medical staff and sick bay seemed way too small.

Just have to point out that you just perfectly described James T. Kirk's command style.

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That's actually a myth. More often than not, Kirk toed the company line or looked for leeway within his given orders without outright violating them during TOS. Kirk as "Starfleet's bad boy" was really a retcon that got its legs in Star Trek II, but doesn't really match the more no-nonsense Kirk that actually was in TOS.

Just have to point out that you just perfectly described James T. Kirk's command style.

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That's actually a myth. More often than not, Kirk toed the company line or looked for leeway within his given orders without outright violating them during TOS. Kirk as "Starfleet's bad boy" was really a retcon that got its legs in Star Trek II, but doesn't really match the more no-nonsense Kirk that actually was in TOS.

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Hence the winky-smiley face afterward.

But, in fairness, I think 'myth' is too strong word there. Exaggeration or caricature maybe fits better. Myth implies that there were no incidents of those sort of natures.

How many times did he violate the Prime Directive? How many times did he innapropriately touch (or more) a subordinate? How many times did he cross the Neutral Zone border?

Just have to point out that you just perfectly described James T. Kirk's command style.

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That's actually a myth. More often than not, Kirk toed the company line or looked for leeway within his given orders without outright violating them during TOS. Kirk as "Starfleet's bad boy" was really a retcon that got its legs in Star Trek II, but doesn't really match the more no-nonsense Kirk that actually was in TOS.

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Hence the winky-smiley face afterward.

But, in fairness, I think 'myth' is too strong word there. Exaggeration or caricature maybe fits better. Myth implies that there were no incidents of those sort of natures.

How many times did he violate the Prime Directive?

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Officially, only one time--in order to save an entire civilization--and it wasn't even shown in TOS (it was actually mentioned in an episode of VOY). In fact, though, Kirk was a stickler for the Prime Directive and was noted for going after others who violated it. In instances in which the Prime Directive had already been violated by those people, Kirk then acted to either correct or minimize the damage.

How many times did he innapropriately touch (or more) a subordinate?

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On screen, zero. Potentially offscreen, one.

Dr. Helen Noel was the only person under his direct command that he might have been romantically involved with.

How many times did he cross the Neutral Zone border?

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Once. And he was under secret orders from Starfleet to do so in order to steal the Romulans' cloaking device.

So the Rebel was never really a Rebel. He was the suck up who everyone hates because he ruins the fun by quoting the rule book every five seconds. Picard was kinda the same. Sisko broke some rules during War. Janeway though was pretty inconsistent on the whole rule thing.

Now it always struck me that non inteference only applied to groups that were not sufficiently advanced it never applied to Klingons and Romulans.